The former president and practiced political escape artist is on the verge of being held in contempt of Congress for ignoring a congressional subpoena regarding the Epstein scandal.
The former president and practiced political escape artist is on the verge of being held in contempt of Congress . This time, the Democratic Party, which stuck with him during his scandal-plagued 1992 campaign and during his 1998 impeachment, isn’t rallying to him in unison.
for ignoring a congressional subpoena regarding the Epstein scandal, with nine Democrats voting in favor, eight voting against, and two abstaining. The committee also voted to hold Hillary, who defied a subpoena as well, in contempt, but by a narrower margin.Erase Jimmy Carter’s Iran shame Only three Democrats went along with the Republicans, a rare instance of Hillary being a better vote-getter than her husband. The measure will now go to the full House and is expected to pass with some Democrats defecting again to vote with Republicans.Pam Bondi , who has tried to make much more attenuated cases against other Trump enemies, will look the other way when there’s an open-and-shut case that Bill and Hillary are guilty of contempt, an offense punishable by up to a year in jail. Ten years after Republicans routinely chanted, “Lock her up,” and thrilled to Trump telling Hillary during a debate that he’d put her in jail, they could well see a serious indictment ofNow, Bill Clinton claims, as is his wont, that he’s the victim. He complains that the committee wouldn’t take “yes” for an answer when he offered his testimony with conditions.Clinton insists that the subpoena has no legislative purpose, which is supposed to be a requirement of congressional investigations — in other words, if, say, Congress is considering regulating sports betting, it can probe betting markets, but it’s not supposed to try to nail people in random investigations.So Clinton’s attempt to get out of his obligation to comply by saying, in effect, “it depends on what the meaning of ‘subpoena’ is” probably won’t work. Republicans love the idea of keeping the Epstein focus on Clinton, who was chummy with the disgraced financier, rather than President Some Democrats, meanwhile, don’t want to muddle their message of transparency and accountability over Epstein by carrying water for Clinton, who is no longer important to the party. You can argue that contempt of Congress shouldn’t be used in politicized investigations to go after partisan enemies, but any such norm was breached in the Biden years when Trump allies Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon went to prison in similar subpoena fights. You can also argue that it’s a bad practice to try to prosecute and jail former presidents, but that norm, too, was cast aside in the Biden years when federal and state prosecutors made Donald Trump their White Whale. His lies about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in a 1998 deposition in an unrelated sexual-harassment case led to his impeachment. On the other hand, he’s a master at evasive wording and wiggling out of difficult lines of questioning. He should simply comply with the subpoena and not flirt with a prosecution that would be expensive and time-consuming for him, at best, and put him in the impossible position of arguing for forbearance when none was shown to Navarro or Bannon. Blake Lively may be a mom of 4 — but it's clear she never graduated from being a middle-school mean girlMamdani says NYC kids can forget about a traditional snow day on Monday — no matter the forecast
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